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“Tribune is the organ of no political party and has no association nor understanding with any party” is the opening line of the statement of aims and beliefs in our first edition of January 1, 1937.

Tribune was founded as a voice for unity against fascism in Spain and Nazi Germany.

For more than 75 years our journalism has been based on internationalism, the search for economic and intellectual liberation and the love of equality and democracy.

Our wartime literary editor George Orwell laid out the Tribune standard for writing about politics in 1946:

Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one’s own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase — some jackboot, Achilles’ heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse — into the dustbin, where it belongs.

This kind of journalism is as important today as it was when Aneurin Bevan, Stafford Cripps and George Strauss founded Tribune in 1937.

Tribune campaigned for the ending of colonialism and imperialism, for nuclear disarmament and for the rights of women at work.

We believe the very word progressive needs to be reclaimed from the reactionary coalition of neo-liberals and career politicians whose venality and collusion with compliant media is corroding the democratic process worldwide.

Those who play roulette with national and international economies, who practice bigotry, racism or discrimination on grounds of age, gender, colour, creed, legal status, disability or sexual orientation will be targeted by Tribune.

Tribune is a not-for-profit fortnightly in hard copy and published every day online.

February 17, 2018

Jeremy Corbyn has come under increased pressure to clarify Labour’s position on Brexit. The party’s national executive chair, Andy Kerr, received 17,000 emails over five days from people lobbying for …

February 17, 2018

Oxfam has agreed to stop bidding for UK government funding until it can show it meets the “high standards” required following the Haitian sex scandal. International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt …

February 17, 2018

Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected South Africa’s president as the only candidate nominated by parliament, dominated by his African National Congress, a day after embattled leader Jacob Zuma resigned. In …

February 11, 2018

The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) confirmed the increased risks of cancer for workers who carry out night or shift work. Researchers from Sichuan University, China, reviewed 61 studies published …